Pragmatics and Literature is an important collection of new work by leading practitioners working at the interface between pragmatic theory and literary analysi
Up until the mid-1980s most pragmatic analysis had been done on spoken language use, considerably less on written use, and very little at all on literary activi
In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled
In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of l
The Pragmatics of Irony and Banter is the first book-length study analysing irony and banter together. This approach, inherited from Geoffrey Leech’s research